Adding a heartbeat monitor display

[TopHatPenguin]

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary): Add a heart beat monitor display which Bo's can also look at from the Sulaco.

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The added details around the heartbeat monitor would also be nice to add, mission time and Name being the most important imo.
Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole): Something a Bo can rely on when the camera is out of action and it improves that sweet, sweet immersion.

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc): Add in a visual display which is a separate option to the camera from the Bo's computer.

Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it): coding and a small bit of spriting.

[Fickmacher]

I'm down.

[Derpislav]

I'm down.

My heartbeat display confirms.

+1.

[Jroinc1]

Okay.
This is called the Crew Monitoring Computer (TM), and is already in...

[Derpislav]

It works only on the Z-level the CMC is on.

[Jroinc1]

It works only on the Z-level the CMC is on.

Sure? Cause it shows survivors, least it used to.

[TopHatPenguin]

Okay.
This is called the Crew Monitoring Computer (TM), and is already in...

I'm almost positive that doesn't give you a cool atmospheric fitting and lore view of a players heart beat from the comfort of the bridge as a Bo, and as such this suggestion is here.

[TopHatPenguin]

Bump for more feedback.

[CraayyZ]

Command should get one of those CMC machines in the Bridge, and have it organized in Squads. Make it a lot like the movie! +1 pls

[TopHatPenguin]

Would be really neat to see in although, no idea if it's actually do-able as in sprite wise.

Either way it'd be neat so here's a good ol'bump.

[Snypehunter007]

Bump for more feedback.

You are just trying to save it from me.

[Crab_Spider]

Hold the phone Snype! This post needs to be defibbed!

+1 Knowing when your men are dying or still kicking is a huge advantage in knowing how to adapt to strategy against the xenos. Even though there'd be more lag generated, I would honestly enjoy having the ability to direct medics to the location of another Marine from a different squad.

[KingKire]

We already have this in ss13, you jsut have 3 sprite states for health: healthy is green stable heart beat, medium is orange unhealthy heart beat sign, and critical is some weird jaggey stuff.

You just need an animated sprite for each state (or not, you can just let it be a stable image), but thats up to the spriters to do the leg work on that.

[louisloftcraft]

1+ could give good insight of squad health status so command can know the combat readiness or when to withdraw squads/troops from the front line, as crab_spider said "could give a whole know tactical advantage".

[Tristan63]

We already have this in ss13, you jsut have 3 sprite states for health: healthy is green stable heart beat, medium is orange unhealthy heart beat sign, and critical is some weird jaggey stuff.

You just need an animated sprite for each state (or not, you can just let it be a stable image), but thats up to the spriters to do the leg work on that.

Thats on TG code, not old baycode. This can be done using the landing/ice map that is already in the game, and putting dots on it with the colors for health status, exclamation marks can be SLS?

[NoahKirchner]

Hells yeah, if this can be done I'd love to see it.

[TheMaskedMan2]

+1 because immersion.

Also lets replace the HP indicator with a fancy little heartbeat monitor thing.